Mike Bibby

As the Wisconsin Badgers embark on a mission not impossible in the NCAA Final Four on Saturday, it might be useful, as you watch, to understand their roots. They are a mosaic of hand-me-downs. Their game against Kentucky, 38-0 and presumably unbeatable, may be seen as a morality play. It will match Kentucky's hired guns, players who arrive in Lexington more for an audition with the NBA than for a marketing degree, against a Wisconsin team that has aged like fine wine. This is a game of the one-and-dones versus the stay-and-plays. The debate over the annual construction of Kentucky's team will rage on. The letters N-C-A-A, as the sanctioning body of this, will be invoked...

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As the Wisconsin Badgers embark on a mission not impossible in the NCAA Final Four on Saturday, it might be useful, as you watch, to understand their roots.
They are a mosaic of hand-me-downs.
Their game against Kentucky, 38-0 and presumably unbeatable,...